SPEAKERS Nick Nelson, MBBS Medical Director, Highland Hospital Human Rights Clinic; Advisory Board Member, Partnerships for Trauma Recovery Sita Patel, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology, Palo Alto University; Board Member, Partnerships for Trauma Recovery Annika Sridharan, MSW, Psy.D Founder, Clinical and Training Director at Par ...…

SPEAKERS Michelle Meow Host, "The Michelle Meow Show" (Radio and TV); Twitter @msmichellemeow John Zipperer Host, Week to Week Political Roundtable, The Commonwealth Club—Co-Host David Campos DCCC Chair This event was recorded in-front of a live audience at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco on November 14th, 2018.…

SPEAKERS Sandra Kahn D.D.S., M.S.D.; Member of craniofacial anomalies teams, UCSF and Stanford University Paul R. Ehrlich Ph.D., Author, The Population Bomb; Bing Professor of Population Studies Emeritus and President of the Center for Conservation Biology, Stanford University This event was recorded in-front of a live audience at the Commonwea ...…

SPEAKERS Isa Blumi, Ph.D. Author, Destroying Yemen: What Chaos in Arabia Tells Us About the World Janine Zacharia Former Jerusalem Bureau Chief and Middle East Correspondent, The Washington Post; Former State Department Correspondent, Bloomberg News, Former Washington Bureau Chief, The Jerusalem Post; Former Jerusalem Correspondent, Reuters; Co ...…

SPEAKERS E.G. Vallianatos, Ph.D. Author, Poison Spring; Former Staff Scientist, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA); Former Staff Member, Congressional Office of Technology Assessment; Former Legislative Assistant, Representative Clarence Long (D–MD) This event was recorded in-front of a live audience at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco ...…

SPEAKERS Bridget Frey Chief Technology Officer, Redfin Josh Reeves CEO and Co-Founder, Gusto Tina Sharkey CEO and Co-Founder, Brandless Wayne Sutton Director of Program Development, Backstage Accelerator Pui-Wing Tam Technology Editor, The New York Times This event was recorded in-front of a live audience at the Marines Memorial Theatre in San ...…

SPEAKERS Steven Pinker Johnstone Professor of Psychology, Harvard University; author, “Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress” (Penguin, 2018) Paul R. Ehrlich Bing Professor of Population Studies, Stanford University; co-author, “The Population Bomb” (Ballantine, 1968) This program was recorded at The Commonweal ...…

SPEAKERS Steven Johnson Author, Farsighted: How We Make the Decisions That Matter the Most In Conversation with Jacob Ward 2018–2019 Berggruen Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University; Editor-in-Chief, Popular Science; Television Correspondent, Al Jazeera and PBS This event was recorded in-front of a l ...…

SPEAKERS Sukhinder Singh Cassidy President, StubHub; Founder, theBoardlist Alexis Krivkovich Partner, Financial Services Practice; Managing Director, McKinsey & Company, Silicon Valley Office Sarah Lacy CEO and Founder, Chairman Mom—Moderator This event was recorded in-front of a live audience at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco on Novemb ...…

SPEAKERS David Kaplan Former Legal Affairs Editor, Newsweek; Author, The Most Dangerous Branch This program was recorded in front of a live audience at The Commonwealth Club in San Francisco on November 9th, 2018.

SPEAKERS Gary Taubes Author, The Case Against Sugar This program was recorded in front of a live audience at The Commonwealth Club in San Francisco on November 7th, 2018.

SPEAKERS Bethany McLean Author, Saudi America: The Truth about Fracking and How It's Changing the World Kassie Siegel Senior Counsel, Climate Law Institute Director at Center for Biological Diversity Severin Borenstein E.T. Grether Professor, Haas School of Business, University of California This program was recorded in front of a live audience ...…

Speakers Jeffrey Rosen President and CEO, National Constitution Center; Professor, George Washington University Law School; Author, William Howard Taft: The American Presidents Series Mary Cranston Retired Senior Partner, Pillsbury Law Firm; Past Chair, Commonwealth Club Board of Governors—Moderator This event was recorded in-front of a live au ...…

SPEAKERS Melissa Caen Political and Legal Reporter, CBS Bay Area (KPIX) Katie Hafner Journalist; Contributor, The New York Times; Twitter @katiehafner Mollie Reilly Assignment Editor, HuffPost; Twitter @molliereilly This event was recorded in-front of a live audience at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco on November 7th, 2018.…

SPEAKER Gregory M. Buncke, M.D. Plastic Surgeon; Director, Buncke Medical Clinic This event was recorded in-front of a live audience at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco on November 6th, 2018.

SPEAKER Dr. Angela Bayat Clinical Director, Dentists Organized for Veterans This event was recorded in-front of a live audience at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco on November 5th, 2018.

SPEAKERS Clair Farley Senior Advisor to the Mayor and Director of the Office of Transgender Initiatives, City and County of San Francisco Kris Hayashi Executive Director, Transgender Law Center Honey Mahogany Social Worker; Community Advocate; Performer,"RuPaul's Drag Race" (Season F5); Executive Director, Compton’s Transgender Cultural Distric ...…

SPEAKERS Steven Machtinger Attorney; Violist Performing With the San Joaquin Quartet This event was recorded in-front of a live audience at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco on November 1st, 2018.

SPEAKERS Tom Siebel Founder and CEO, C3 In Conversation with Alexandra Suich Bass U.S. Technology Editor, The Economist This event was recorded in-front of a live audience at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco on November 1st, 2018.

SPEAKERS Shahidul Alam* Founder; Drik and Majority World Agencies, The Pathshala School and the Chobi Mela Festival; Photographer; Writer; Curator; Professor, Activist Brent Lewis Co-Founder, Diversify Photo; Business Photo Editor, The New York Times Aida Muluneh 2018 CatchLight Fellow; Photographer; Contemporary Artist, Founder and Director, A ...…

SPEAKERS Arlie Hochschild Professor Emerita, University of California Berkeley; Author, “Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right” (The New Press, 2018) Eliza Griswold Journalist, The New Yorker; Author, “Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America” (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018) This event was ...…

SPEAKERS Minister of Justice and Attorney General, the Republic of Rwanda In Conversation with Charles L. Frankel Entrepreneur; Honorary Consul, Republic of Botswana; Board Member, Goldman School of Public Policy at UC Berkeley; Former Botswana Country Director, Peace Corps This event was recorded in-front of a live audience at the Commonwealth ...…

SPEAKERS Elissa Epel Ph.D., Professor, Department of Psychiatry, UCSF Wolfram Alderson CEO, Hypoglycemia Support Foundation Dr. Robert Lustig Professor emeritus of Pediatrics, Division of Endocrinology, UCSF Dr. Natalie Rasgon Professor, Departments of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Obstetrics and Gynecology, Stanford University School ...…

SPEAKER Chris Oldfield Consul-General of Australia and Senior Trade and Investment Commissioner, San Francisco This event was recorded in-front of a live audience at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco on October 31st, 2018.

SPEAKERS Sherrie Westin President of Global Impact and Philanthropy, Sesame Workshop Jillian Manus Managing Partner, Structure Capital—Moderator This event was recorded in-front of a live audience at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco on October 30th, 2018.

SPEAKERS Francis Fukuyama Senior Fellow, Stanford University’s Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies; Author, Identity: The Demand for Dignity and the Politics of Resentment Frederick M. Dolan Professor Emeritus of Rhetoric, UC Berkeley This event was recorded in-front of a live audience at the Marin Outdoor Arts Club in Mill Valle ...…

SPEAKERS Mary Creasman CEO, California League of Conservation Voters Michael Mantell President, Resources Legacy Fund Michael Sutton Executive Director, Goldman Environmental Foundation—Moderator This event was recorded in-front of a live audience at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco on October 30th, 2018.…

SPEAKERS Michelle Meow Host, "The Michelle Meow Show" (Radio and TV); President, SFPride; Twitter @msmichellemeow John Zipperer Host, Week to Week Political Roundtable, The Commonwealth Club—Co-Host Aarti Kohli Executive director at Advancing Justice-Asian Law Caucus This event was recorded in-front of a live audience at the Commonwealth Club i ...…

SPEAKER Cole Roberts Professional Engineer, Arup This event was recorded in-front of a live audience at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco on October 29th, 2018.

Speakers Ejaz Naqvi, M.D. Past President, Islamic Center of Zahra in Pleasanton; Blogger, Patheos’ “Ask a (Born Again) Muslim” Michael Pappas Executive Director, San Francisco Interfaith Council—Moderator This event was recorded in-front of a live audience at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco on October 26th, 2018.…

SPEAKERS Julián Castro Former U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Former Mayor of San Antonio; Author, An Unlikely Journey: Waking Up from My American Dream; Twitter @JulianCastro In Conversation with Abdi Soltani Executive Director, ACLU Northern California This event was recorded in-front of a live audience at the Commonwealth Cl ...…

SPEAKERS: Trip Gabriel Political reporter, The New York Times Nathaniel Stinnett Founder & Executive Director, The Environmental Voter Project Sam Arons Sustainability Director, Lyft

SPEAKERS Max Boot Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations; Columnist, The Washington Post; Author, The Corrosion of Conservatism: Why I Left the Right; Twitter @MaxBoot In Conversation with Marisa Lagos Political Reporter, KQED This event was recorded in-front of a live audience at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco on October 25th, 2018.…

SPEAKERS Sam Arons Director of Sustainability, Lyft Katie Excoffier Sustainability Manager, Genentech Michael Kobori Vice President of Sustainability, Levi Strauss & Co. David Lipman Chief Science Officer, Impossible Foods Navi Radjou Author, Conscious Society (forthcoming); Winner, 2013 Thinkers50 Innovation Award; Fellow, Cambridge University ...…

SPEAKERS Michiel Bakker Director of Global Programs for Real Estate & Workplace Services Google In Conversation with Elizabeth Carney Host and Chair, Business & Leadership Forum This event was recorded in-front of a live audience at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco on October 23rd, 2018.

SPEAKERS Rick Wilson Republican Campaign Strategist; Columnist, The Daily Beast; Author, Everything Trump Touches Dies John Zipperer Host, Week to Week Political Roundtable; Vice President, Media & Editorial, The Commonwealth Club—Moderator This event was recorded in-front of a live audience at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco on October ...…

SPEAKERS Manoush Zomorodi Creator, WNYC’s “Note to Self” Podcast; Author, Bored and Brilliant: How Spacing Out Can Unlock Your Most Productive and Creative Self In Conversation with Jenny Dearborn Chief Learning Officer, SAP This event was recorded in-front of a live audience at Cubberley Theater in Palo Alto on October 23rd, 2018. ** This Podc ...…

SPEAKERS Alyssa Ayres Senior Fellow for India, Pakistan, and South Asia, Council on Foreign Relations; Author, Our Time Has Come: How India Is Making Its Place in the World; Twitter @AyresAlyssa Sanchita B. Saxena, Ph.D. Executive Director, Institute for South Asia Studies at UC Berkeley—Moderator This event was recorded in-front of a live audi ...…

SPEAKERS Jackie Speier U.S. Representative (D–CA) Suzy Loftus Former President, San Francisco Police Commission In Conversation with Cristina Escobar Writer; Activist; Former Deputy Director, Break the Cycle This event was recorded in-front of a live audience at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco on October 22nd, 2018.…

SPEAKERS John Zipperer Host, Week to Week Political Roundtable Marisa Lagos Reporter, California Politics and Government, KQED; Twitter @mlagos C.W. Nevius Columnist, Santa Rosa Press Democrat; Star, “The Oakland Raiders, True Crime and Coming of Age in San Francisco”; Twitter @cwnevius Darrel Ng Managing Director, W20 Group; Former Director of ...…

SPEAKERS Steven Pearlstein Columnist, The Washington Post; Author, Can American Capitalism Survive? Why Greed is Not Good, Opportunity Is Not Equal, and Fairness Won’t Make Us Poor In Conversation with Kara Swisher Executive Editor, Recode This event was recorded in-front of a live audience at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco on October 1 ...…

SPEAKERS Michael Beschloss Presidential Historian, NBC News; Author, Presidents of War; Twitter @BeschlossDC In Conversation with Roy Eisenhardt Lecturer, UC Berkeley Law School This event was recorded in-front of a live audience at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco on October 18th, 2018.

SPEAKERS Carla Gambescia Author, La Dolce Vita University: An Unconventional Guide to Italian Culture from A to Z This event was recorded in-front of a live audience at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco on October 19th, 2018.

SPEAKERS Michelle Meow Host, "The Michelle Meow Show" (Radio and TV); President, SFPride; Twitter @msmichellemeow John Zipperer Host, Week to Week Political Roundtable, The Commonwealth Club—Co-Host Kristina McKibben Immigration attorney in Sacramento Jason Sias Civil rights attorney in Los Angeles This event was recorded in-front of a live aud ...…

SPEAKERS Barbara Finamore Senior Strategic Director, Asia, at the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) Carter Roberts President and CEO, World Wildlife Fund U.S.

SPEAKER Stephen Most Writer, Filmmaker

SPEAKERS John Doerr Chairperson, Kleiner Perkins; Author, Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs; Twitter @johndoerr In Conversation with Sal Khan Founder and CEO, Khan Academy This event was recorded in-front of a live audience at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Palo Alto on October 18th, 2018. ** T ...…

SPEAKERS Amb. Wendy Sherman Former U.S. Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs; Author, Not for the Faint of Heart: Lessons in Courage, Power, and Persistence; Twitter @wendyrsherman In Conversation with Philip Yun Executive Director, Ploughshares Fund This event was recorded in-front of a live audience at the Commonwealth Club in San F ...…

SPEAKERS Chris Kresser M.S., L.Ac., CEO, Kresser Institute; Co-director, California Center for Functional Medicine, Creator, ChrisKresser.com; Author, The Paleo Cure This event was recorded in-front of a live audience at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco on October 16th, 2018.

SPEAKERS Reid Hoffman Partner, Greylock Partners; Co-founder, Linked In; Co-author, Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies; Twitter @reidhoffman In Conversation with Gina Bianchini Founder and CEO, Mighty Networks This event was recorded in-front of a live audience at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Palo Alto o ...…